Claudia Montes, winner of the 2017 Miss Asturias contest who according to the Civil Guard maintained a “relationship” with former transport minister José Luis Ábalos – who denies – and was hired by “influence” of his in the public company Logirail, according to the investigation followed … In the Supreme Court, He has not come to declare as a witness Before the magistrate who investigates the politician’s case.
Montes alleges so that it has been presented that it has not been properly notified, consequence, according to legal sources, that it was evicted and when changing domicile, the citation did not arrive. Judge Leopoldo Puente is expected to issue a new car citing it to testify again.
According to the indications collected by the researchers, mainly emails, Ábalos and their right hand would not only have interceded to place Jésica Rodríguez, the former minister and former number three of the PSOE, in the public companies INECO and Tragsatec charging some more than 1,000 euros per month without the need to work, but for the same dates, the spring of 2021 would have done the same. Claudia Montes, where appropriate in Logirail.
The Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard delivered to the judge Messages between Montes and Koldo García May 2021 in which the first complained to the advisor of Ábalos of the treatment of his boss in Logirail, Óscar Gómez, who was general director of that company until in January 2024 Óscar Puente appointed Renfe Business and Operations Director.
«Adif calls me and confirms that the request to put on the Internet that is more than signed by many people and that I had a long time I could have the Internet. That the problem is my company that does not facilitate the data and that they are requested, which is the person’s contact so that I can put the optical fiber. My surprise is that I call and transfer it and they tell me that they are going to remove the Gijón office and that surely I go to Oviedo. We return back. Even Adif tells me that anything the same has never happened to them, it is that something personal they have against me. And that everything is obstacles. Nothing, Koldo, that hinders. They don’t want me to find out more things and can’t inform you. Sincerely I tell you, here there is a lot of shit among all, ”complained the woman. Koldo García had her registered in her telephone list as “Crazy Asturias.”
«Koldo, Óscar Gómez who has stronger than you and Jose? What power has more than you, ”he also wrote to Koldo García referring to him and to Ábalos.
“Personal circle”
Judge Puente decided to cite as a witness to Claudia Montes in the case against Ábalos on April 23, the same day he urged the National Court to impute the former president of Adif Isabel Pardo de Vera for the hiring of Jésica Rodríguez in Ineco and Tragsatec.
-The instructor also wants to clarify the role they could have Ábalos and his right hand in the hiring of Claudia Montes, hence he was quoted to listen to it on Tuesday, at 10 in the morning.
Following one of the UCO reports delivered to the cause of the High Court with the conversations between Montes and Koldo García cited, the judge saw indications that “it could have been irregularly hired in the public company Logirail SME SA, linked to the Ministry of Transportation, Mobility and Urban Agenda, by the influence of the investigated in this case Don José Luis Ábalos Meco With the relevant collaboration of the also investigated Mr. Koldo García Izaguirre, forming that part of the ‘personal circle’ of the first cited, a statement that will be received for the purpose of contributing to clarify the circumstances of said hiring ».
If it is confirmed that it was so, it would be the second woman placed in a public transport company – after Jésica Rodríguez transmitted in the Supreme Court that Ábalos requested her hiring – in an irregular way and for her link to the former minister.
Asked about the hiring of Jésica Rodríguez in the Koldo Case Investigation commission in the Senate, the current Minister of Transportation, Óscar Puente, said that he had not seen anything in the transport files that he has “made think of the existence of any illegality”, as well as refused to open an audit in this regard, as he did with the health material contracts for which the investigation against the investigation against Ábalos in the Supreme Court. “It makes no meaning to order an audit for each news or for each fact,” he said, as well as the case of Inteco plug -in because “no one sticks for 900 euros,” he said. “Those administrative positions were not exactly very demanded,” added the minister.
César Moreno does not declare
It was also planned to declare today as a witness César Moreno, collaborator of businessman Víctor de Aldama in his societies. The high court magistrate quoted him with the intention that he gave some information on the concept for which the commissioner delivered 10,000 euros per month for at least a year and a half, according to his version, to the advisor of Ábalos, Koldo García.
Since he is one of those investigated in the Koldo case of the National Court, Moreno has decided not to answer the questions that could compromise him in said investigation.
In the car with which he cited both Claudia Montes and Moreno as witnesses, the Magitrado said he wanted to listen to Aldama’s partner “to the extent that he can contribute knowledge about ‘the alleged periodic deliveries of ten thousand euros per month’ of Aldama, or people who acted by his commission, to Koldo García.” The magistrate has already explained that, “although he is cited as a witness, he must appear with a lawyer by appearing as investigated in the case instructed by Judge Ismael Moreno at the National Court.”
